Thomas Popular Garden Concert

Event Information

Venue(s):
Central Park Garden

Conductor(s):
Theodore Thomas [see also Thomas Orchestra]

Price: $.25

Event Type:
Orchestral

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
6 July 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

11 Jun 1868, 8:00 PM

Program Details

Gounod’s “Ave Maria” was arranged for solo violins, cornet, piano, and organ.

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Thomas Orchestra
2)
Don Carlos, march
Composer(s): Verdi
3)
Zampa, overture
aka Introduction
Composer(s): Hérold
4)
An der schönen, blauen Donau, op. 314
aka Blue Danube
Composer(s): Strauss
5)
Fantasie on a theme from Petrella’s Jone
aka Fantasie on a theme from Petrella's Ione
Composer(s): Unknown composer
6)
Rienzi, overture
Composer(s): Wagner
7)
"Ave Maria," (Instrumental version)
aka Méditation sur le 1er Prélude de piano de J. S. Bach; Meditation, prelude, for piano, organ and cello; Meditation on Bach's Prelude No. 1
Composer(s): Gounod
8)
Symphony, D. 589, C major. Scherzo
Composer(s): Schubert
9)
Vom Fels zum Meer
aka Victory march; March of victory; From crag to sea
Composer(s): Liszt
10)
Dichter und Bauer, overture
aka Poet and peasant overture
Composer(s): Suppé
11)
Morceaux de salon, op. 22. Rêverie
Composer(s): Vieuxtemps
12)
Libelle, Die, op. 204
aka Devil's darning needle; Sibelle
Composer(s): Strauss
13)
S’ giebt nur a Kaiserstadt, s’ giebt nur a Wien, op. 291
aka 'S giebt nur Kaiserstadt, ’s giebt nur ein Wien; Kaiserstadt polka
Composer(s): Strauss
14)
Quadrille on a theme from Offenbach's La Grande duchesse de Gérolstein
aka Grande duchesse quadrille
Composer(s): Strauss

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 11 June 1868.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 11 June 1868, 7.

Includes program.

3)
Advertisement: New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung und Herold, 11 June 1868, 6.

Includes program.